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Title: Children's Home Environments: Understanding the Role of Family Structure Changes
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Kowaleski-Jones, Lori Dunifon, Rachel |
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Children's Home Environments: Understanding the Role of Family Structure Changes Working Paper, Department of Family and Consumer Studies, University of Utah, Salt Lake City and Poverty Research and Training Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, September 2000 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Department of Family and Consumer Studies, University of Utah Keyword(s): Divorce; Family Studies; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Siblings Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Earlier version presented: Albuquerque, New Mexico, Biannual Meeting. Using data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79) merged mother-child sample, we investigate the impact of two family events, parental divorce and the birth of a sibling, on the cognitive stimulation and emotional support provided to children in the home. We use fixed-effect regression techniques to control for unmeasured mother- and child-specific characteristics, and measure responses to these family changes before, during and after the events. We find that the effect of a new sibling on changes in the emotional support provided to children varies depending on when the event occurs, with births in the future associated with increased emotional support, and births in the present associated with decreased support. Additionally, we find that, after controlling for unmeasured variables, divorce does not have an adverse effect on the home environments of boys and girls; in fact, a divorce occurring in a previous time period is associated with greater emotional support provided to girls. |
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Kowaleski-Jones, Lori and Rachel Dunifon. "Children's Home Environments: Understanding the Role of Family Structure Changes." Working Paper, Department of Family and Consumer Studies, University of Utah, Salt Lake City and Poverty Research and Training Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, September 2000. |